We wouldn’t blame you if you missed the latest on Meriam Ibrahim and other stories:

We’re having a hard time keeping up: The Christian mother formerly on death row in Sudan has taken refuge at the U.S. Embassy after being released from police custody for a second time. Her husband is a U.S. citizen.

Well, in Huntsville, Ala., a Wiccan priest who had been scheduled to offer the prayer at Thursday’s Huntsville City Council meeting, was notified Wednesday that the invitation had been rescinded.

“I guess somebody got the collywobbles,” the Wiccan said.

On the gay marriage front, Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, waxes lyrical about Antonin Scalia, calling the justice a prophet for anticipating the legalization of same-sex marriage.

Legitimate power always includes attentiveness to justice. When power is not attentive to justice it cannot endure.

And our own Mark Silk points out that the Vatican survey of bishops’ conferences, which found that many Catholics “have difficulty” accepting church teachings, also offers a critique of the Catholic concept of natural law:

“In a vast majority of responses and observations, the concept of natural law today turns out to be, in different cultural contexts, highly problematic, if not completely incomprehensible.”

Yonat Shimron

Jon

….in other news, the committee on where to site the moon was formed, and included a Romulan (so the committee has the needed phase teleportation technology), along with an Arcturian, a Vegan (who’ll eat anything) and a Sirian (who proceeded to explain she has nothing to do with Assad, in fact, and has never met her or him). They viewed a number of sites for the siting of the moon, and voted to delay the siting until the sighting for Ramadan was complete.